Our quality improvement journey to deliver more comprehensive and consistent discharge information, by first creating a discharge education electronic book (eBook) using the iBooks® application program (Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA), and subsequently by using MyChart Bedside (Epic Systems Corporation, Verona, WI) to enhance NICU families’ preparedness for discharge.
McCallie K, Balasundaram M. “There's No Place Like Home -- Improving NICU Discharge Education and Preparation,” Oral Presentation, Gravens Conference on the Environment of Care for High Risk Newborns, Clearwater Beach, FL, March 9-12, 2022
McCallie K, Balasundaram M. “There's No Place Like Home -- Improving NICU Discharge Education and Preparation,” Workshop, Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium Annual Symposium, Houston, TX, November 1, 2021
McCallie, K. “There's No Place Like Home: Designing & Building a Discharge Education Program using MyChart Bedside/Mobile,” Epic Neonatology Steering Board, virtual meeting, March 24, 2021
McCallie K. “There's No Place Like Home: Designing & Building a Discharge Education Program using MyChart Bedside/Mobile,” Epic Physician Builder Spotlight Webinar, February 5, 2021
M Balasundaram, M Porter, S Miller, D Sivakumar, A Fleming, K McCallie. “Increasing Parent Satisfaction With Discharge Planning: An Improvement Project Using Technology in a Level 3 NICU.” Adv Neonatal Care. 2022 Apr 1;22(2):108-118. doi: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000000841. Epub 2021 Feb 4.
Balasundaram M, Miller S, Sivakumar D, Fleming A, Porter M, Charles J, McCallie K. “Using the ‘MyChart Bedside’ App to Enhance NICU Discharge Preparedness,” Poster, Gravens Conference on the Environment of Care for High Risk Newborns, Clearwater Beach, FL, March 4-7, 2020
Babcock R, Fleming A, Miller S, Sivakumar D, McCallie K, Charles J, Balasundaram M. “New innovative approach for NICU discharge education,” Poster, Vermont-Oxford Network (VON) Annual Quality Congress, Chicago, IL, October 2-6, 2019
Corton L, Berghem-Kantor K, Babcock R, Matsumoto K, Celestino A, Miller S, Sivakumar D, McCallie K, Charles J, Balasundaram M. “Path to home starts at birth: benefits of consistent, early discharge teaching using technology as a supplemental resource,” Abstract and oral presentation, Gravens Conference on the Environment of Care for High Risk Newborns, Clearwater Beach, FL, March 6-9, 2019
Corton L, Berghem-Kantor K, Babcock R, Matsumoto K, Celestino A, Miller S, Sivakumar D, McCallie K, Fontenot A, Charles J, Balasundaram M. “Using Technology to Support Consistent, Early NICU Discharge Teaching,” Abstract & poster presentation, California Association of Neonatologists Cool Topics Conference, San Diego, CA, March 1-3, 2019
Location
Mountain View, California
Collaborators
- Malathi Balasundaram, Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
